Opinion pieces today are flooded with the Senate Republicans rejection of the automobile bailout.  In what appears to be a partisan witch hunt against Labor Unions, there is the ignored reality that millions of people will lose their jobs.  This could come as early as Christmas.  It appears that the only hope for automobile manufactoring employees could lie in the hands of the President.   Could bailing out the American Works be Bush’s final swan song?   

Herbert Hoover Time — Robert L. Borosage

A Senate That Can’t Be Bothered To Help Workers — The Nation

Norm Coleman’s Florida Strategy — The Nation

Detroit Breakdown — Tobin Harshaw

An Old Age To Quell — David Ignatious

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It is now official the United States is in a recession.  However, opinion pages have yet to comment on the official state of the bludgeoned economy.   Instead, much of the focus remains on the low drums of war as President Bush sends Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to India to ease tensions with Pakistan.   Elsewhere, commentaries begin to ask whether or not the events in India could eventually happen in the United States.  

Obama’s National Security Balancing Act — Christian Science Monitor

Bobby Jindal, The Republican Strategist and the Last Battle — Lincoln Mitchell

Auto Bailout Won’t Prevent Bankruptcy — Jack Kelly

The Next Attorney General — NY TIMES

India’s 9/11?  Not Exactly — Amitav Ghosh

Could It Happen Here?  — David Ignatius

Hillary of State — Kimberley A Strassel

U.S. Recession Could Last Into 2010 — Maura Reynolds

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It’s Black Friday!   As shoppers venture out today to find the early deals on Christmas merchandise, many of them might realize that the dollar is not stretching as far as it did last year.   This has put the fear in the hearts of merchants, and worse if estimated Black Friday sales come out negative, we might see another see-saw dip in the stock market.  QUICK — Barack Obama to the batpole! Oh wait, his base is already questioning his choices of cabinet members, today switching over to Defense Secretary Gates and their ever favorite punching bag Sarah — eer, I mean Hillary Clinton.  Further, E.J. Dionne compares Barack Obama to the Bush I Presidency (where did he get that idea?).   I am starting to get the feeling that the far right simply only has to purchase the Popcorn for the theater, rather than create the drama themselves.

The US-Iraq Deal Doesn’t Bode Well — Robert Dreyfuss

A Secretary of Defense We Can’t Believe In — The Nation

Dying of Consumption — Stephen S. Roach

Obama’s Bush Doctrine — E. J. Dionne

Hillary Clinton as Diplomat — LA TIMES

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As the world (and Wall Street) watch breathlessly to see the pieces of Obama’s financial team, the punditocracy is only concerned about one thing — Hillary Rodham Clinton.  I am sure you guessed it if you have watched any of the talk shows.   Many progressives fear her nomination as Secretary of State, like it is the magic elixer to wake the Princess up from the Obama juice they have been drinking for months.   As the realism of Obama being human, not “Jesus Christ Superstar” sinks in, watch the progressives begin to foam as their dreams a non-centrist Obama administration slinks straight through Foggy Bottom and right into the Patomic.   It appears that no matter what Obama does or does not do, it will not live up to the unrealistic expectations of the far left, who are determined from Day 1 to begin complaining about his governing.  I have one word for this:  SAD.

Let’s Be Clear About Obama – Katrina Van Den Heuvel

Hillary’s Big Ethics Problem:  Bill — The Nation

Fixing Fema — New York Times

When Even Good News Worsens A Panic — L. Gordon Crovitz

Team Obama Rides In — Sebastian Mallaby

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There are certain things that make me stop and pause especially when the spiritual is blended with the political.   This weekend a friend of mine told me that one of her friends believed that Barack Obama was the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln.   So, what does a girl do?  She turns to the “google”.   To my surprise this seems to be a common interest among spiritualists and astrologers!  Being the classic skeptic of much that is spiritually proclaimed, it was rather shocking to me that the pages of the op-ed’s are comparing Obama to Lincoln.   I have included the Op-Ed by Richard Reeves which compares the two.   On another note, once again not much has been written about Obama’s transition team or the economy.  The most we get is interest in the White House Chef, which frankly has left me with a bad taste in my mouth.  

Barack Obama’s White House Chef — Josh Brusin

Schumer and Durbin Want Liebermann Stripped of Homeland Security — Jane Hamsher

Obama Announces Transition Ethics Rules — Kyle Trygstad

The Obama Transition — Richard Reeves

Fast Track to Efficiency — Paul C. Light

You Report, We Marginalize — Harold Meyerson

Stopping a Global Meltdown — C. Fred Bergsten

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